2025-2026 Community Grants Program - Three-year Community Alliance Agreements

Brian Stockwell36:58

Anyone else wish to discuss the matter? I'll put the motion to those in favour. That's carried unanimously. If we can ask Councillor Wegener to come back into the meeting. Excellent. Move on to the sixth item which is community grants program, three year community alliance agreements. Do we have a declaration or more than one declaration?

Nicola Wilson37:33

In accordance with Chapter 5B of the Local Government Act 2009, I inform the meeting that I have prescribed conflict of interest in relation to item 8.6, 2025-26 community grants program, three year community alliance agreements. Agenda, in relation to the funding recommendation to Noosa Arts Theatre, as I am the senior vice president. As a result of my conflict of interest, I will now leave the meeting room while the matter is considered and voted on. Will exit the stage light.

Tom Wegener39:49

It's nice to see that there's lots of conflicts of interest because that means that you actually were on the boards and working, you know, with these fantastic organisations. Okay. I'll just change that. Oh, yes. The name of the grand Chair. We're the chairs. Good morning. New orleans, right? Great. Good? Uh-huh. I'm just going to change that. In accordance with Chapter 5B of the Local Government Act 2009, I inform the meeting that I have a prescribed conflict of interest in relation to item 5, 8.6 actually, 2025 through 2026 community grants alliance to the year community alliance, agreements in relation to the funding application to the Pomona arts Majestic Theatre. On this agenda, as I am a committee member of the Pomona arts incorporation, as a result of my conflict of interest, I will now leave the meeting room while the matter is considered and voted on.

Thank you. So the first report today we've got is the summary report of all our community grants. So community grants that we're considering this round are our community project grants, which includes events, includes equipment, includes infrastructures. Structures and programs and projects. The other part we bring to the table is our three-year grants, which is our alliance and signature community events. We are recommending a total of two hundred and fifty one thousand five hundred and thirty three dollars and fifty three cents our community project grants and for our three year grants we are recommending a hundred and ninety thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and eleven cents. That then gives us a remaining budget of just over a hundred and eleven thousand dollars to be put forward to our quick response, our individual sports grants and any emergent grant respondents that were received throughout the year as well. So this is our first year that we're running the new policy and our new policy only covers that one year of community grants. So it's only open for one year. We're then looking to open up our quick in September. So we're looking for applications. But just in case some very emergent grants come through and they slip the gap in terms of that one year, we've also got a little bit of remaining budget to cover that.

Grants program, including things like sports, field maintenance, et cetera, approximately $1 million a year, probably across a year. It covers a lot. So today we've got the one-year grants and then community alliance and signature grants, but there's halls and communities. There's sports fields and sports grounds. There's quite a few.